Show TRAGEDY OF AIR AND Ai SEA Little Hope That the Two British Officers Who Went Up in a Balloon Are Alive London June 1 I 4 O a m mIn In spite of ol the most strenuous efforts of ot the govern government government government ment authorities and others the fate of ol the two young engineer officers Lieuten Lieutenant ant Caulfield and Lieutenant Leake ake who went up In a from Aldershot camp May 28 remains a mystery and the slen slender slender slender der thread of ot hope grows brows roB less and less as he hours pass and no news of or the mis missing missing missing sing men comes cornea to hand There Is every reason to believe that another tragedy of the air and sea has taken place The officers at Aldershot have practically practically cally given ghen up hope It is thought that the balloonists confused by the heavy mist mistook their bearings This theory is borne out by the log which was reco recovered recovered ered from the derelict balloon baBoon and in which It is recorded that the two officers officers cers were trying to descend Tuesday evening the same time the balloon was Wall seen drifting out to sea by b the Weymouth coast guards It is feared reared that the Ule aero aeronauts aerOnauts aeronauts were ere either thrown out when the basket baskel struck the water waler or that they were ere drowned subsequently when the bal balloon balloon loon after being driven bounding over the waves finally dropped into the chan channel channel nel net off Exmouth It Is interesting to note noto that the tog log shows the tho balloon reached an altitude of feet J 1 |